Fire-kindler



- (No Model.)

G. D. STREETER.

- FIRE KINDLBR.

No. 380,606. Patented Apr. 3, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Fries.

GEORGE D. STREETER, OF W'AGO, TEXAS.

FIRE-KINDLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,606, dated April 3, 1888.

Application tiled June 27, 1887. Serial No. 242,644.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE D. STREETER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waco, in the county of McLennan and State of Texas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fire-Kindlers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide novel means for making comparatively inexpensive fire-kindlers; and to such end the invention consists, essentially, in a vessel having two chambers, one capable of being opened at the top and adapted to contain ashes, and the other closed, except as to a bottom passage in communication with the ash'chamber, and adapted to contain a combustible fluid such as petroleum-oil or other liquid hydrocarbon-which flows through the said bottom passage to saturate the ashes and prepare them for use as fire-lrindlers.

The invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical central sectional view of the vessel for containing the combustible fluid and the ashes to be saturated thereby; Fig. 2, a longitudinal central sectional view of one form of device for compressing the saturated ashes into solid fire-kindlers.

In order to enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will now describe the same in detail, referring to the drawings, wherein- The numeral 1 indicates a vessel of any desired form in cross-section and divided into two chambers, 2 and 3, by a vertical partition or diaphragm, 4, terminating adjacent to the bottom wall of the vessel, or otherwise provided with a bottom passage-way, 5, to place the two chambers in communication. The chamber 2 is to contain ashes, and the chamber 3, which is closed except as to said passage 5, is to contain a combustible fluidsuch, for instance, as petroleum or other liquid hydrocarbon. The fluid is supplied to its chamber through the medium of an ordinary oil-can screw, 6, or other device, and the ashes are supplied by opening the movable cover 7 of the vessel.

As before stated, the fluidchamber is closed except as to the bottom passage, 5, so that only a small quantity of the combustible fluid can accumulate in the ash chamber, while sufficient of the fluid is admitted to the ashchamber to thoroughly saturate the ashes contained therein. The ash-chamber 2 is open (No model.)

conditions required; but I have for said purpose devised the construction shown in Fig. 2, which comprises a hollow cylindrical or other shaped tube, 8, open at one end, as at 9, and containing a piston or plunger, 9, and a rod, 10, passing through the opposite end of the tube and provided with a handle by which to operate the piston.

In practice the vessel is placed in a hori zontal position, the can-screw 6 is removed, and the fluid chamber filled, .or nearly so, with a combustible fluid, such as petroleumoil or other liquid hydrocarbon. The canscrew 6 is then replaced and the vessel arranged in an upright position, the ashes are supplied to the ash-chamber, and when thoroughly saturated are compressed into solid or substantially solid fire-kindlers by repeated pressings of the tube into the saturated body of ashes. When the tube is thus filled, or nearly so, the piston is pressed down to still further compress the mass, after which the tube, with its contents, is removed and carried to the stove or furnace and the fire-kindlr deposited therein by expelling it from the tube through the medium of the piston. The fire-kindler is now prepared for the match and fuel.

I do not confine myself to the devices shown for compressing the saturated ashes, nor to ashes as the material to be saturated and compressed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is The hereindescribed vessel having two chambers, one provided with a movable cover and adapted to contain ashes, and the other closed, except as to a bottom passage in communication with the ash-chamber, and adapted to contain a combustible fluid, which flows through said bottom passage to saturate the ashes and prepare them for use in making firekindlers, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEO. D. STBEETER.

Witnesses:

Gno. BELDING, J. L. Goonnan. 

